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Beijing Makes Straw Man of Paper Tiger

July 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I love it when Chinese officials become dismissively indignant even when they are just flat out, demonstrably wrong. Here’s a classic.
Chinese Minister of Environmental Protection has refuted doubts over the accuracy of the air quality test results in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics and blamed media’s exaggeration of the capital’s pollution.
Zhou Shengxian said during [...]

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